Populous Solitudes: Solipsism, the Orient, and the Young Romantics
...and the wood,
The covert of old trees, with trunks all hoar,
But light leaves, young as joy, stands where it stood,
Offering to him, and his, a populous solitude.
A populous solitude of bees and birds,
And fairy-formed and many coloured things...
- Lord Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, III.ci-cii
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